Quotes About Excellence

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

I think the ultimate sign of an icon or legend in any sport is the ability to elevate their teammates.

I want me and my teammates to go as far as we can and to be the best players that we all can be.

The Defensive Player of the Year is the guy that makes his team better. Not only gets stats - it's the guy that also has an impact on his teammates and leadership.

Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he's not afraid to challenge them. He's not afraid to challenge them publicly, he's not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that's what you need from a leader.

When I do play I try to be the best to help my teammates.

I have a good supporting staff around me and good teammates encouraging me every single day to perform on the field and to perform in training and I set high standards for myself as well knowing that Bayern Munich is one of the best teams in the world.

I just want what's best for my teammates at the end of the day and that's giving them the best version of me.

Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn't like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it's just great.

Let's say that the teams I played in were all excellent. I played with many, many great players and incredible teams.

The West Point Story

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

people like John Wooden, maybe the greatest coach of all time in any sport, or Mike Krzyzewski, who is the modern-day John Wooden, sustain success for so long. You can readily see their humility.

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

Stacy Keibler is the best.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.